Tuesday, March 30, 2010

half a million and counting!

Naturally, I wanted to celebrate. I mean, with you guys, since you made it happen. But how?! No one has yet invented a giant internet pie.

Jamie Harrington, clever thing, had the idea that I have a giveaway contest, the prize being a first 20 pages crit. So that's what it is! I'll give away one crit of a book's first 20 pages (size 12 font, double spaced, .5 margins for you sneaky sneakies out there).

You'll be automatically entered to win if you do any or all of the following things:

1) repost this on your blog

OR

2) retweet my Twitter announcement

OR

3) link to this post on Facebook (make sure you include @Moonrat in the post so I'm notified of it)

I'll close the contest at 11 pm EST tomorrow (March 31). The Rally Monkey will randomly select one winner without my input (as if I could make him listen to me, anyway).

Yahooie! Me loves me some prizes! I'm getting my Betty Crocker on making a casserole. (Who am I? I do not know.)Pretty sure it's monsoon related behavior. I RT'd on twitter and will post on FB later! Thanks for the fun contest.

I've had a Twitter account for a few months now, but I've NEVER tweeted nor retweeted. Until today. It's not going out to a lot of people, but maybe enthusiasm and you being my first will count for something ;o)

I hope it worked: Facebook was linked as per the rules of engagement, but I'm not much of a Facebooker and not entirely sure about the @Moonrat business. Much love for your blog, Moonrat, and for your awesome self. Congrats! :D

Note the completely unrelated pic in my post, because it is epic. Well, not as epic as something like WoT, no matter how many times Meyer throws the word "saga" in there. But raptors would elevate it close to the realm of Norse mythology.

Please say that counts! Unless you'd rather not critique a few short stories instead of a novel opening. The only bits of novel I have written need to be restarted from scratch, and I'm into short stories right now.

Agent Orange: while I love the color and admire your wit, I wonder if you're too young to remember how many lives agent orange ended or changed irrevocably? It was a horrible, horrible part of our country's recent history.